Eirini Kontaki

• Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas

This work addresses the lack of methodologies for the seamless integration of 360° videos, 3D digitized artifacts, and virtual human agents within a virtual reality environment. The proposed methodology is showcased in the context of a tour guide application and centers around the innovative use of a central hub, metaphorically linking users to var...

In this paper, we present an interactive guided tour of the House-Museum of Eleftherios Venizelos located in the city of Chania, Crete, Greece. The mobile application is using a mixture of Bluetooth beacons and Augmented Reality (AR) to expand the museum experience both while visiting the museum and when planning for a museum visit. In terms of tou...

In this work, we present our approach towards reviving events, historical figures and artefacts in the context of a physical museum exhibition organized by the National Historical Museum in the Old Parliament House as part of the celebration of 200 years since the beginning of the Greek Revolution. In this context, several interactive systems were...

In this paper we present the design and implementation of a multimodal solution for the promotion of gastronomic tourism in the municipal area of Heraklion city. The provided solution is comprised of standalone information systems accompanied by a mobile app for the presentation of thematic routes. By facilitating a rich knowledge base and a collec...

We present a mobile application that is bringing to life historic photographs of Heraklion by mapping them in historical routes within the city and offering the visitor a dialogue with its social and historical context. At the same time while visiting the public library where these historic photographs are exhibited, the mobile app enhances the pro...

This work presents a web-based authoring tool that enables museum curators and individuals to make digital collections of exhibits accessible and explorable via the Web. It allows users to create interactive and immersive virtual 3D/VR exhibitions using a unified collaborative authoring environment based on a Human-Centered Design approach with the...

With the ever-advancing availability of digitized museum artifacts, the question of how to make the vast collection of exhibits accessible and explorable beyond what museums traditionally offer via their websites and exposed databases has recently gained increased attention. This research work introduces the Invisible Museum: a user-centric platfor...

The domain of distributed services is constantly growing, enabling interoperability between applications that run on different operating systems. The increasing availability and use of wireless mobile devices gave rise to opportunities for new types of mobility-distributed applications. This poster presents the FAmINE4Android middleware, which faci...

This paper presents an Ambient Intelligence infrastructure that fuses state-of-the-art technologies and related applications with digital cultural resources to deliver interactive and immersive user encounters through on-site Virtual Exhibitions (VEs) which respond to the demands of ‘new museology’. The practical exploitation of the concept is pres...